Crime in Kosovo

Serbian military officers who have denied accusations of war crimes in Kosovo will serve as consultants on a documentary about two battles from the 1999 conflict, made by Serbia’s public broadcaster.

The US State Department said that those responsible for moving the bodies of Kosovo Albanian civilians killed in the 1999 war to mass graves in Serbia should be brought to justice.

The Kosovo Special Prosecution announced that there is no evidence to support allegations that Serb minister Nenad Rikalo tortured ethnic Albanians during the war.

At the retrial of three Kosovo men accused of trafficking in human organs, a nurse who worked at the Medicus clinic near Pristina denied a statement she signed ten years ago about the removal of patients’ kidneys.

A forensics expert told the retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo that two patients had their kidneys removed for no medical reason.

Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre released a documentary accusing the head of the Serbian Army, Ljubisa Dikovic, of involvement in war crimes in Kosovo and cover-up operations to hide the bodies.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution confirmed on Wednesday that it has issued 57 warrants for the arrest of Serbian citizens suspected of committing war crimes, but will not reveal the names of those who are wanted.

BELGRADE - Kastriot Imeri, son of the activist of the opposition Albanian party "Democratic League of Kosovo" Hakim Imeri, who was killed in 1999, addressed a letter to the Special Court hoping that the circumstances of the death of his father will be clarified.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli are under investigation of the Special Court for crimes committed by the former KLA.

The arrest warrant issued for Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is still valid in Serbia, "as the procedure against him is ongoing," says the justice minister.

"There has already been a final ruling in the process against Thaci, for the crime of terrorism," Nela Kuburovic said on Wednesday, and added: